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I don't know that we need the bad in order for the good to exist per se, but we definitely need opposites of all kinds in order to recognize the difference between them. If we had never experienced illness, we would have little appreciation of the blessing of good health. Without having ever known disappointment, we would not be able to fully know the joy of success. The list goes on and on.
I don't know that we need the bad in order for the good to exist per se, but we definitely need opposites of all kinds in order to recognize the difference between them. If we had never experienced illness, we would have little appreciation of the blessing of good health. Without having ever known disappointment, we would not be able to fully know the joy of success. The list goes on and on.
I fully enjoy life, without ever having been dead.
I fully enjoy life, without ever having been dead.
Yes, but you'll enjoy death even more, after the roller coaster ride we call life. Not to be morbid, and I am in no rush to be dead, but I do rather look forward to it, because it will be the ultimate travel destination. And where were you before you were born?
Anyway, I was getting ready to say what Katzpur said--I totally agree.
I don't believe we need the bad with the good. We are created perfect and the only reason we do bad things is bacause we are taught to do them by others (parents, friends, etc) who have done them. If our first parents had not sinned, we would not know evil or bad. Our world would probably be Heaven on Earth right now if not for that. There is no bad or evil when a planet is in Light and Life. Only good.
Yes, but you'll enjoy death even more, after the roller coaster ride we call life. Not to be morbid, and I am in no rush to be dead, but I do rather look forward to it, because it will be the ultimate travel destination. And where were you before you were born?
Anyway, I was getting ready to say what Katzpur said--I totally agree.
No, I won't enjoy being dead. There is no afterlife, there is only non-existence after death, exactly the same as it was before birth. I didn't "enjoy" the time before birth either, because I simply didn't exist.
No, I won't enjoy being dead. There is no afterlife, there is only non-existence after death, exactly the same as it was before birth. I didn't "enjoy" the time before birth either, because I simply didn't exist.
That's the same way I feel. In order to enjoy something you have to have a conscious mind, in other words, a physical functioning brain. That's where all of the input from our senses is sorted out and experienced by all of us. Once your brain stops functioning due to bodily death that's the end of enjoyment, pain, or any conscious feeling.
How can you appriciate the good, without having the bad?
Take a warm summer day, it's warm outside and you have to cross a road and then a field to get to your house.
The road is made of stone, and it hurts your feet to walk on.
The field is made of grass, and it feels great to walk on it. Makes you want to run to your house.
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Next take a hospital, the one you love is right now in a critical condition and is being operated (Car accident). Yesterday you were angry at him, because he didn't go get the material the kids needed for their school work.
He gets out of the operation, and you get to hear that he is stable.
Two days later he wakes up, and you get to talk with him again.
If the accident wouldn't have happened. You would have been angry at it for a longer time. Thanks to the accident, you notice what an amazing person you share your life with.
We would be obliviouse to most of theese things, until we're about to lose them. There is no pleasure without pain, there is no good without evil.
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